TuF Spyglass PRO v2.9.5
Advanced Server-Side Spyglass & Live GPS HUD for ARK: Survival Evolved
More information. Zero client mods.
TuF Spyglass PRO upgrades the vanilla ARK Spyglass with clean creature information while also giving every player a persistent Live GPS HUD.
Everything runs server-side through ArkServerAPI. Players join normally — there is no workshop mod, no client download and no custom launcher requirement.
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Smarter Vanilla Spyglass
Players use the normal vanilla Spyglass and hold right click while looking at a dinosaur.
Wild target example:
[TuF] Wild Male Triceratops - Lv. 50
H 15 | S 20 | W 18 | M 27
HP 375/375 | Torpor 0/250
Own-tame example:
[TuF] Tribe Female Rex - Lv. 285
H 42 (+20) | S 28 (+5) | W 35 (+15) | M 47 (+30)
HP 18.4k/18.4k | Torpor 0/23.1k
The display is compact and only appears while the Spyglass is actively being used.
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🛡 PvP-Friendly Information Protection
TuF Spyglass PRO can show:
Enemy tame information is blocked.
This gives players useful taming and breeding information without turning the Spyglass into an enemy scouting tool.
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Clear Wild / Own-Tame Feedback
The HUD immediately tells the player what type of target they are viewing.
Tamed stat additions are separated clearly:
15 (+1) instead of 15+1
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Persistent Live GPS HUD
Players also receive a clean Live GPS display:
[TuF] GPS 42.7 / 81.3
The GPS does not create a new notification every time the player moves.
A fixed HUD message is updated in place, preventing the huge notification stacks common in basic implementations.
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🗺 Automatic Map-Aware Alignment
The plugin detects the active map and applies its configured GPS alignment profile automatically.
Built-in profiles include:
The Island • The Center • Scorched Earth • Ragnarok • Aberration • Extinction • Valguero • Crystal Isles • Genesis 1 • Genesis 2 • Lost Island • Fjordur • Aquatica
Unknown/custom maps use the configurable default profile.
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Resolution / Wrap-Safe GPS
Different player aspect ratios and HUD layouts can make right-aligned notification text wrap onto a second line.
v2.9.5 includes a wrap-safe GPS system using:
This is designed to keep the GPS together as one HUD line across common player setups.
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Performance-Focused
Built for populated servers.
The plugin uses:
This prevents unlimited heavy target scans from running in one scheduler pass.
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🛡 Stability-Focused Architecture
TuF Spyglass PRO intentionally avoids older fragile target-acquisition paths based on raw line-trace collision structures.
The current target system uses ArkServerAPI's server octree and includes:
One HUD feature is far less likely to repeatedly destabilize the server if something unexpected happens.
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🖥 Administrator Tools
Displays runtime information such as:
Configuration changes can be safely queued without a full server restart.
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⚙ Highly Configurable
You can customize:
Replace [TuF] with your own server branding directly from config.
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Requirements
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Best For
PvP clusters • Small Tribes • Solo/Duo servers • PvE clusters • No-Mod servers • Breeding-focused servers • Quality-of-life server packs
Give your players the information they want without forcing a client mod.
https://discord.gg/jUAeEEYPxc
Advanced Server-Side Spyglass & Live GPS HUD for ARK: Survival Evolved
More information. Zero client mods.
TuF Spyglass PRO upgrades the vanilla ARK Spyglass with clean creature information while also giving every player a persistent Live GPS HUD.
Everything runs server-side through ArkServerAPI. Players join normally — there is no workshop mod, no client download and no custom launcher requirement.
---
Smarter Vanilla SpyglassPlayers use the normal vanilla Spyglass and hold right click while looking at a dinosaur.
Wild target example:
[TuF] Wild Male Triceratops - Lv. 50
H 15 | S 20 | W 18 | M 27
HP 375/375 | Torpor 0/250
Own-tame example:
[TuF] Tribe Female Rex - Lv. 285
H 42 (+20) | S 28 (+5) | W 35 (+15) | M 47 (+30)
HP 18.4k/18.4k | Torpor 0/23.1k
The display is compact and only appears while the Spyglass is actively being used.
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🛡 PvP-Friendly Information Protection
TuF Spyglass PRO can show:
- Wild dinosaurs
- Your own tribe's tamed dinosaurs
Enemy tame information is blocked.
This gives players useful taming and breeding information without turning the Spyglass into an enemy scouting tool.
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Clear Wild / Own-Tame FeedbackThe HUD immediately tells the player what type of target they are viewing.
- Wild target header: Red
- Own-tame header: Green
- Stat row: Clean gray
- Wild HP / Torpor: Red
- Own-tame HP / Torpor: Green
Tamed stat additions are separated clearly:
15 (+1) instead of 15+1
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Persistent Live GPS HUDPlayers also receive a clean Live GPS display:
[TuF] GPS 42.7 / 81.3
The GPS does not create a new notification every time the player moves.
A fixed HUD message is updated in place, preventing the huge notification stacks common in basic implementations.
---
🗺 Automatic Map-Aware Alignment
The plugin detects the active map and applies its configured GPS alignment profile automatically.
Built-in profiles include:
The Island • The Center • Scorched Earth • Ragnarok • Aberration • Extinction • Valguero • Crystal Isles • Genesis 1 • Genesis 2 • Lost Island • Fjordur • Aquatica
Unknown/custom maps use the configurable default profile.
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Resolution / Wrap-Safe GPSDifferent player aspect ratios and HUD layouts can make right-aligned notification text wrap onto a second line.
v2.9.5 includes a wrap-safe GPS system using:
- No-break spacing
- Safe GPS scale limit
- Configurable right alignment
- Per-map alignment profiles
This is designed to keep the GPS together as one HUD line across common player setups.
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Performance-FocusedBuilt for populated servers.
The plugin uses:
- Configurable Spyglass refresh interval
- Rendered text caching
- Server-octree dinosaur lookup
- Maximum candidate processing limits
- Maximum heavy scans per pass
- Round-robin player processing
This prevents unlimited heavy target scans from running in one scheduler pass.
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🛡 Stability-Focused Architecture
TuF Spyglass PRO intentionally avoids older fragile target-acquisition paths based on raw line-trace collision structures.
The current target system uses ArkServerAPI's server octree and includes:
- Per-player SEH protection
- Spyglass circuit breaker
- GPS circuit breaker
- Startup grace period
- Fault-window tracking
- Temporary feature quarantine after repeated faults
One HUD feature is far less likely to repeatedly destabilize the server if something unexpected happens.
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🖥 Administrator Tools
Displays runtime information such as:
- Active viewers
- Spyglass/GPS state
- Target scans
- Target hits
- Candidate count
- Candidate-cap hits
- Spyglass messages
- GPS messages
- Fault totals
Configuration changes can be safely queued without a full server restart.
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⚙ Highly Configurable
You can customize:
- Server branding
- Wild/own-tame visibility
- Spyglass refresh rate
- Cache duration
- Scan distance
- Aim cone
- Aim radius
- Candidate caps
- Scan budgets
- Enabled stats
- HP/Torpor display
- GPS prefix
- GPS color
- GPS size
- Poll interval
- Right alignment
- Per-map offsets
- Wrap-safe behavior
- Safety/quarantine thresholds
- Localization strings
Replace [TuF] with your own server branding directly from config.
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Requirements- ARK: Survival Evolved dedicated server
- Windows x64
- ArkServerAPI 3.4+
- No additional plugin dependency declared
- No client-side mod required
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Best ForPvP clusters • Small Tribes • Solo/Duo servers • PvE clusters • No-Mod servers • Breeding-focused servers • Quality-of-life server packs
Give your players the information they want without forcing a client mod.
https://discord.gg/jUAeEEYPxc